Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an additional round of $162M in funding for Healthcare Information Exchanges. Combined with the state grants announced in February, this brings total funding to $547M. This means that all…

This morning the office was buzzing with Google hysteria. Google, releasing great security tools like RATproxy, has released a web application scanner similar to Nikto (and to a lesser extent Nessus web Checks) called Skipfish. Now, we understand that not…

Earlier this week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released an initial draft of its healthcare IT framework and strategic plan. This is a high level outline of the themes, principles, strategies and objectives that…

I spent the last few days at the RSA conference in San Francisco. I’ve been attending for many years now and there seems to be a growing discontinuity between what’s being presented in the sessions (and the discussions following) and…

I wrote about this a while back, but it seems like others are taking note: "The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday (Feb. 25) screamed “the Emperor has no clothes” by reporting to consumers that one of the largest…

As credit card fraud prevention measures have made it tougher on identity thieves, identity thieves have found a new target, healthcare identities. And healthcare information systems are nowhere near ready to withstand the onslaught. A recent survey by Chicago-based HIMSS…

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